Educational Administration

Doctor of Education

EDU 974

Breyer State University

Instructor: Catherine Moran, PhD.

COURSE OVERVIEW: Welcome to Educational Administration, a doctorate level course in the curriculum for the Degree, Doctor in Education. I am pleased to instruct you in this course.

This is an upper level course that prepares you to work in the field of Educational Administration, superintendent.  In this course you will study the rationale for how school business administration functions.  Specifically you will study the problems and issues for administrators.

I know you will enjoy this course. Please learn as much as you can as you progress through it, as it does lay down a solid foundation for the rest of the curriculum. It is my pleasure to have you in the course.

TIME FRAME: This is an (5) five-semester hour course. This course is allotted ten weeks of time. You must complete all of the requirements for the course successfully by the end of the ten-week period. The first day of week one will begin the day that you register for the course, or the day which you notify me that your textbook has arrived and you are ready to begin your studies. Please be cognizant of the time frame. Extensions of time are permitted if needed with my and/or departmental approval. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded five (5) semester hours of credit.

TEXTBOOKS: There is (1) required textbook for this course.

Book 1: “School Business Administration – A Planning Approach”, by John R. Ray, I. Carl Candoli and Walter G. Hack.  Prentice Hall Publishers.  ISBN:  0-205-41414-1.

This book may be found in your local bookstore. Your local bookstore most often will order it as a special order for you if it is not in stock. Or, you may purchase this book online from:

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EXAMINATIONS: There is a cumulative final exam required for this course covering the entire textbook. The final exam must be taken by the end of the tenth week in the course.  The exam is programmed and is located in the classroom for this course. The examination is "open book" objective type. You will have one (1) day to complete your exam, once you access it from the classroom. To access the exam, you must send me an email and request to have access to the exam. Upon registration, you will receive my email address. I will then program your access in. You will receive an email back from me telling you that you are now authorized to go ahead and to access your exam. To access, you will come into the classroom, click on testing, and click on the exam you are taking. You will need your User ID and PASS WORD to access the exam. The exam will appear on your screen. Once you access the exam, you have twenty-four hours to submit your answers. The program provides me the exact date and time that you accessed the exam. The program also notifies me of the exact date and time that you submitted your answers. Thus, the program is timing you. When you are ready, go back into the classroom and click in your responses and then click submit. Shortly, you will receive the exam in your email box with your computed score. You will also know what questions, if any, that you missed, and what the correct answer is. I also receive a copy of your exam and your score.

GRADING: The grading scale for this course is as follows:

90-100%    = A
80-89%      = B
70-79%      = C
Below 70% = Fail

COMMUNICATION: You are encouraged to communicate with me. I am available as a teacher, coach, and mentor to assist you in meeting your goals for this course. Primarily, communication is through email. However, I am also available for conversation by telephone if you would like. Our classroom for this course has a "chat" room. I am also very willing to meet with you one-on-one in the chat room at your request. From time to time, depending on how many students are enrolled in this course at a particular time, we will have some scheduled group chats. You will receive more detailed information at the time such chat sessions are scheduled. Please keep my email address handy so that you can contact me whenever necessary. If at any time during this course you change your email address, please be sure to notify me right away.

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT: There is a paper required for this course.  You will write a paper on of the issues involved in school administration - taken from the textbook.  The requirements for the paper are as follows:

1). Cover page, with your name, course number and title, and title of paper.
2). A minimum of 10 pages.
3). 1-inch margins.
4). Double-spaced.
5). APA style format.
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ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: I, Catherine Moran, Ph.D., currently teach undergraduate and graduate courses at Breyer State University and Canyon College. I hold Ph.D. in Education and a Master’s degree in Education from Breyer State University.  A Bachelor of Science from Kent State University with a major in Chemistry and Biology and Speech. I have worked in several hospitals as a Med. Tech. I lecture at conferences on “Assessing and Teaching Children with Learning Disabilities”. I am the Registrar of Breyer State University. 
 
COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will:

1. Have an understanding of the school business administration.
2. Discuss planning as a strategy and process.
3. Understand an alternative view of educational planning.
4. Have an understanding of the legal and judicial context for school business administration.
5. Discuss the judicial origins in school business administration.
6. Discuss compliance responsibilities and practices.
7. Have an understanding of the revenue and fiscal context.
8. Understand the taxation and the planning for local revenues.
9. Know the nature of management concepts.
10. Discus private versus public sector management.
11. Know management applications.
12. Understand the linguistics of Information systems.
13. Define the unique role of the business administrator.
14. Have an understanding of strategic planning and budgeting.
15. Know the statutory bases for school system budgeting.
16. Understand the concepts of budgeting.
17. Have an understanding of accounting, auditing and reporting.
18. Discuss the school fund accounting and operations.
19. Know auditing.
20. Have an understanding of personnel and payroll administration.
21. Discuss the challenges of personnel administration.
22. Understand professional negotiations, personnel supervision and personnel budgeting.
23. Know the legal aspects of purchasing and inventory control.
24. Discuss maintenance and plant operation.
25. Have an understanding of purchasing and distribution, maintenance and operation, capital asset planning and management, cash management, risk management and insurance and other issues in school business administration.
26. Understand comprehensive strategic planning.
27. Understand the nature of cash for investment.
28. Understand the role of insurance, planning insurance acquisition and insurance contracts.
29. Discuss alternate financing for risk management.
30. Know the occupational safety and health act.
31. Understand fiscal and economic perspectives.
32. Discuss personal skills for school business administrators.

COURSE CONTENT: A brief abstract of content:

1. The evolving context.
2. Planning as strategy and process.
3. Legislative and judicial context for school business administration.
4. Revenue and fiscal context.
5. Taxation
6. Planning for local revenues.
7. Planning for state revenues.
8. The nature of management concepts.
9. Management applications.
10. Unique role of the business administrator.
11. Effect on staff/administrators/faculty.
12. Selection process.
13. Concepts of budgeting.
14. Site-based budgeting
15. Zero-based budgeting
16. The budget process.
17. School accounting.
18. Auditing.
19. Personnel planning and recruitment.
20. Personnel supervision.
21. Personnel budgeting.
22. Purchasing.
23. Legal aspects of purchasing.
24. Inventory control.
25. Maintenance and plant operation.
26. Comprehensive strategic planning.
27. The nature of cash flow.
28. Investment considerations.
29. Panning insurance acquisition.
30. Types of insurance options.
31. Insurance records, maintenance and protection.
32. Transportation services.
33. Security services.
34. Fiscal and economic perspectives.
35. Site-based management.

INFORMATION: If you have any questions regarding this program, you may address them to admassistant@breyerstate.com. An administrative faculty member will respond to all questions.

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